The President of the Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Intensiva, Jesús Valverde, advirtió este lunes que las camas de Intensive Care Unit (UCI) in the country it has collapsed across the increase in patients with COVID-19.
In an interview with the program La Rotativa del Aire de RPP, the doctor explained that the UCI is very dynamic and precisely that it has the day to be, domingo, not having beds of this unit in hospitals and private clinics of the capital.
“Today and today the hospitalization rooms, which are the reserve of the hospitals, are standing. This means that the migration of patients directly from their home to the third level hospitals is done in a frank and vertical manner. At this moment we can say that the UCI at the national level are now collapsing“our crime is taking place in the extended areas of the Intensive Care Unit”, alerted.
Jesús Valverde clear that the camas UCI no van to solve the patient problem with COVID-19, because it planted a content strategy based on the second level based on high power systems installed in the general hospitalization areas. “Currently we have around national level around 350 or 400 high altitude devices”, added.
“We are proposing to the Ministry of Health, and have three months, which are these high-flow systems. The high-flow system is one of high-velocity oxygen delivery systems that is relatively relative and very absolute in many ways. cases solve the respiratory problem in patients who want to progress further “, dijo.
Asimismo, Jesús Valverde destacó el tContinuous rabies of intensive care physicians to the length of 10 months of pandemic, pese al agotamiento del personal. In addition, UCI’s claim that the top law is because there are no health professionals.
“The pandemic has devastated the deficit of intensivists at the national level, we are witnessing a global crisis of intensive medical care, both in the world, in Europe in the North of the United States and in Peru. Latin America does not have the number of intensifiers similar to world-first countries “, lamented.
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